WHAT WAS CHANEL THINKING? (Chanel Fall 2022 Haute Couture Roast) 

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Sorry for her in advanced..

You’re right! I can’t say I like much in this new collection

They’ll probably customize it into a ridiculously short romper or such.

@@cinephile1712 sounds like you might be right- but I still don’t like this dress! Just not pretty.

Same. Lagerfeld's absence was really felt

I agree

Everything looked oddly bulky...

Same. People keep telling me to move on, but to this? I keep watching Lagerfeld shows from as far back as they go, and his successor is not drawing me into the present.

So true, and that’s a very good point.

collections doesnt happen overnight, it takes up to 6 month to develop

I think Russia has wayyyyy bigger problems than not having access to Chanel products!

Yeah, it's also weird to be showing a collection centering a period of time around Holodomor when Russia is attempting another genocide against Ukraine

@@assetkurmanov2422 It has almost been 6 months since the invasion

*insert gif of Tatianna* This indeed was A CHOICE....:/

I choose to believe it was either accidental or INCREDIBLY intentional and part of a conspiracy that involved making deliberately drab Russian inspired clothing to contrast/ complement the vibrant Ukrainian inspired collection xD. Like on really highly Place person wanted to make commentary on Russia and ukraine, but wasn't allowed to overtly do it so they can spired with a few other industry people to make this happen xD

I agree with the other comments . Pvery bizarre choice of replicating a Russian influence on maison Chanel in this climate. This collection was perfectly suited to their clientele. Old, tweed, monied and boring. But then again, I’m not buying their looks. I’m good not looking like a corpse in a tweed stair jacket.

I literally never comment on videos but here’s the thing, I’m Russia/American and come from a long line of artists and writers. Despite the fact that the Russian government is absolute trash and that Putin needs to be assassinated by someone ASAP, I don’t think it takes away from the rich arts culture that my people have….It is in dark times like these that normal people turn to the music, literature, fashion, etc to express themselves. Even with the current political climate, I think the separation between Russian politics and the wealth of the Russian arts culture can be made. There are many many Russian folk like myself and my family stuck in that terrible country who cry daily for our Ukrainian siblings. Half my friends are Ukrainian - our cultures are so much more intertwined than I think Americans realize. Please remember that the enemy is the Russian government, not the normal people who have lost everything: any form of freedom of speech (they barely had it to begin with), freedom of press, freedom to assemble, any kind of freedom of any kind in this awful regime…really the only thing left in a time like this that connects me to my people are the arts.

@@daniellelevine4097 that's why I feel like it has to be a conspiracy, because you can make good clothes based on Russian heritage. How bad this is feels like a deliberate slap in the face to Russia.

Yes. It reminded me of Russian winters except that the Russians don't wear such unflattering styles, even in winter.

The didn't think new and creative at least

@@estherlise indeed. Kinda reminds me of MAC cosmetics...they didn't want to change and grow with the times and they chose to rest on their name. Unfortunately, now no one is really interested or barely talks about their products anymore. Channell is classic yes... But it's starting to be tired and boring.

Thinking means assuming they got a brain,safe to say there were a shortage of brains

Lol best comment 🤣 I'm howling

Exactly! It was nothing more than just a boring parade of dresses, just like Dior 😒

Okay, I'M old, and I wouldn't be caught in those awful, dowdy clothes.

@@miriamhavard7621 it's like....what a child thinks a grandma wears, but literally nobody has worn in 60+ years. It doesn't feel inspired by the past, it feels trapped in it

No need to look dowdy when your'e older, or ever😂

We really gotta change the perception on what we expect older women to wear. 😅 I’ve seen some women in their 60s wearing leather & pumps that look way more interesting than half the corporate fashion industry right now. 😅

"older women need clothing". Wow, what an observation haha.

Its a fashion house designed by businessmen….mess would be perfectly accurate 🤣😂

The long skirts were so squared. I like wearing long squirts, but I wear ones that have shape and won't make me look boxy. Truly fugly collection.

Fugly indeed......😭

I don’t like those pockets either. I always think they look a little off too, especially on me personally

I'll give a small shout out for Big Pockets over chest because while they have little utility as pockets, my small-breasted mother used to wear shirts with pockets over them instead of a bra when she was lounging around working on something.

Those of us with bigger breasts never wear pocketed jackets like this😄 depends on how you are built

@@myiachanmagicalgirl lol

@@Lsquared551 Exactly my problem lol. Sometimes they're my best asset, sometimes the downfall to what would be a cute outfit

Thank you for this tasty historical tidbit!

Stravinsky also sent nude photos to his fellow composers. Funny guy.

I fell in love with Russia because of composers like Igor Stravinsky, I had no idea he married Coco 😯

Family business and private policy

The majority of Chanel customers who can afford couture prices are older and most likely conservative in their taste not 20 yo influencers.

their clientele loves the classic chanel silhouette and i dont think that they are ready to evolve and change their style even tho we all are🙄

@@divinel254 And what about thier next clients? Those who in 10 years will be the main custumers but will see Chanel as a Grand Ma brand?

@@dnb8835 not only that, but even Grandma's don't want to be dressed like dowdy grandmas. There's a difference between being a brand that skews to a conservative crowd and being a brand known for being conservative and out of date and "lame". Chanel has been riding that line for a while, but they're getting dangerously close to the latter

I feel the same way but I feel like I should hang my head in shame as I say it!

Which is why it doesn’t belong in a haute couture show.

These tweeds are made by Linton Tweeds, Chanel uses their fabrics exclusively I believe.

I liked most of this collection. I thought it was very wearable

Not sure for Charaf, only few years of existence and the collections already feel so repetitive and stuck in a only one stylistic language... Nah, he is not the man about it.

Gang gang

Even the makeup was boring!

@@LCPMJK yawnz 🥱

thats how people go bankrupt

That’s not a good excuse to make horrible clothes. Just hush honey pie 🥧 🥰

Yes they do!

@@martinperez3363 No shit. English please?

@@martinperez3363 I agree wholeheartedly. Fashion is art. And like art, fashion is open to debate, and opinions. Especially the Couture. It's always interesting to see a collection through someone else's eyes when they take over. But when they stray TOO far from the esthetic,, it just ruins the houses classicism and it disappoints the consumer. If a customer orders a couture suit for 15K, they want it to LOOK like Chanel. I believe in moving forward., as long as you stay within the original concept of the house. Viard is also getting her feet wet in a huge undertaking. I'm sure the "art" will return in future collections.

Coco and Karl were both awful people and coco herself was a nazi sympathizer. I dont give a shit what they think

True, however, Karl Lagerfeld's Chanel has more better design than Virginie's collection thou. Just wondering how the HC sales are with Virginie as the head designer.

Amen

Agreed It’s pretty tone deaf.

It's fashion and yes fashion is political but what's wrong with Chanel pulling out some old Russian-inspired looks? Honestly though if you are American you shouldn't even be commenting on this. The U.S was never sanctioned for Afghanistan or Iraq, and our fashions show went on like business as usual, if anything we celebrated killing those people.

It's not

It is glorious, however, that the Russian inspired collection was drab and boring while the Ukrainian style was astonishingly good.

@@blackcat6508 why are you under every comment

@@wetsock7790 what are you talking about? like wich comment? You are delusional lol

@@blackcat6508 sociovarias comment, u responded with the exact same thing

absolutely!!

where does the 'internalized misogyny' come from? Chanel literally changed the women dressed forever by breaking them out of corsets and other tight, form restricting, fashions. She was a very flawed human, granted (like we all aren't in some way), but she did what she did extremely well and thats worth recognizing.

@@andrewpodolio59 a valid issue that she wanted to fix, but she spent all her time defining womanhood the same way a lot of yt rich feminists have, by acting like their oppressors, and valuing the things they did. Corsets were not the ridiculous caricature people acted like they were, they could be immensely helpful for many issues (mainly getting a large bust to cause less back pain) and were flexible and easy to move in for the vast majority of women. Now them being a requirement was the issue and I agree that shouldn't have been the case, women should have had choices. Corsets were a social requirement and it was considered indecent not to wear them and therein lay the oppression. But tweed?! Really? The answer to women's discomfort was taking the itchiest, heaviest, and least pleasant to wear fabric and take that back? It's like "feminists" who think the crux of the issues we face is a lack of female CEO's! Chanel has a lot of quotes that amply demonstrate her internalized misogyny (not hating on her for that btw, pretty impossible to totally avoid even these days) so I don't know how she could possibly be construed any other way.

@@AvaNightingale she mostly worked with lighter fabrics, like Jersey, to make her loose-fitting skirt suits. tweed is also a nice fabric (and its lined with silk or some other soft fabric on the inside, so the wearer isn't uncomfortable) and heavier varieties are good for colder weather. idk to me she seems like she just marched to her own drum and was incredibly successful because of it. and thats why to me she seemed like an ideal feminist (for her time) and helped women find a way to dress comfortably but yet still in a chic way

@@andrewpodolio59 yeah I'd care about that if it weren't for the conclusive fact that she was a dyed in the wool fascist. Look up the the history of the fascist aesthetic of Mussolini's Italy, especially the horrible architecture, and you'll see the "inspiration" in that jumped up excuse for an atelier. She clothes have always been about conformity, uniformity, flavorless flexing on other fash, and emulation of the worst men have to offer. Not in any way an icon.

@@AvaNightingale you can hate her for sleeping with a Nazi but still see her as a good an important designer. I think her philosophy of focusing well-made clothes that women would look and feel good in was extremely necessary for her time (and still is today). Humans are complicated, they're not just "icons" or "fascists", saints or devils.